Dear Mr. Tangen,In January 2012, we and other Nigerian groups, joined by allies from across Africa and around the world, wrote a letter to the chair of the Norwegian Council on Ethics. It welcomed the Council’s plan to investigate oil pollution in the Niger Delta and the impact this may have on theenvironment and human health. We noted that it […]
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. May 15, 2023… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has welcomed the commitment by the Church of England to vote against Shell’s Chair and Directors and the transition plan update during the company’s 2023 Annual general meeting scheduled for 23rd May, 2023. The Church also re-echoed its earlier announcement that it now needs to […]
LAGOS, NIGERIA. August 25, 2022… Leaders of the Lagos Peoples Movement, a grassroots environmental activist behind the Shadow Shell Annual General Meeting in Lagos have called on the Chair of the Church of England Pensions Board, Clive Mather to resign for being a shareholder in Shell and, hence being a stumbling block for divestment of the Church’s £3.5bn fund from […]
A broad-based coalition of civil society organisations comprising people of the Niger Delta region, environmental activists, representatives of host oil and gas communities, human rights groups, students, youths, artisans, and media practitioners, on Monday, held a rally at the office of the British oil and gas company, Shell PLC, Marina, in Lagos.The CSOs were asking that Shell should stop oil […]
BY LEO ATAKPU Shell has been active in the Niger Delta since the 1930s, leaving the people of the Niger Delta with little more than sorrow, tears and blood. Shell’s presence alongside other multinational oil companies led to loss of livelihoods, and conflicts that led to loss of lives and property. Thirty years ago the Movement for the Survival of […]
LAGOS, NIGERIA. May 23, 2022… Ahead of the Annual General Meeting of the oil and gas giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, scheduled for tomorrow, a broad-based Civil Society Organisations have called on the church of England and other investors to stop lending moral and financial support to shell and should vote against Shell’s energy transition strategy at the AGM. […]